Companies in India’s hard-to-abate cement sector are increasingly turning to solar and other renewable energy sources as part of their decarbonization and net-zero initiatives. Recently, JK Lakshmi Cement announced that it will procure power...

Envision Energy India has signed an agreement with Evren to supply around 152 wind turbine generators (WTG) of its EN 156/3.3 MW turbine platform, totaling 501.6 MW. Evren will deploy these wind turbines in Andhra Pradesh. Envision’s wind turbines...

The Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP), the country’s central government agency for implementing public-private partnership projects, shortlisted consortiums led by the France-headquartered group EDF Renouvelables, Hong Kong-based...

Tire manufacturer MRF has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Serentica Renewables to procure clean energy from a 170 MW hybrid renewable energy project under development. The captive arrangement will allow MRF to meet its substantial...

NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) has invited bids to set up a 250 MW/500 MWh standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) in Kerala. The BESS installation will be at the 220 kV Brahmapuram substation in Kochi, Kerala with an interconnection at the...

Reliance NU Energies, Sembcorp Green Infra, Solarcraft Power India 8 (BluPine Energy), and ACME Solar Holdings won SJVN’s auction to supply 6 GWh (1.5 GW x 4 Hours) of assured peak power from interstate transmission system-connected renewable energy...

West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company (WBSEDCL) has invited bids to set up 250 MW/1,000 MWh standalone battery energy storage systems (BESS) with an additional 250 MW/ 1,000 MWh under the greenshoe option at Goaltore substation, Paschim...

Optimized electrolytes and manufacturing processes increase the energy storage capacity of the latest electron-conducting carbon-cement-based materials (EC3) supercapacitors significantly, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of...